(I suspect a lot of the london.pm types will have answers like this, but hopefully the wibbling is of some interest anyway.)
I have a personal web site, because when I first registered it, it felt like the only way to safely host content. I think it's been registered for about ten years, and it's hosted pages for at least eight. I had pages on Demon for a couple of years before that. For a while it was on a shared colo, and now it's on Dreamhost. It may move to a box at home and serve over ADSL eventually; it's not that busy.
My home page proper is what shallowly aggregated: it fetches feeds to make the home page, but doesn't store the source data locally (although the output is cached). At some point I mean to make it deeply aggregated, so I have a copy of everything I've posted to Flickr, delicious, twitter and so on, in case they go poof! and take my data with them. (It'll also let me do pages for days.) The last time I changed the underlying source was about two or three months ago, but if the visible content hasn't been updated
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I used to have a homepage, and that web page still exists but I don't think of it as my homepage any more since it's old and unmaintained.
Even then, though, it was primarily a list of links, so mostly useful for me (and has since been replaced by a combination of muscle memory, Google, browser location bar auto-complete, browser bookmarks, and delicious).
I've occasionally considered making a new homepage but haven't got around to doing so yet.
My homepage is hosted on a site I also used extensively for email addresses. It was fairly cheap since I used a subdomain of one of their domain names, so I only had to pay for hosting, not for a domain name. This is now a liability since it means that I can't really move the site (or the email addresses!) to another provider.
I had a homepage on 50megs.com until about 2001 (mostly photos of my mates), then used college webspace to do the same. After leaving college I ended up doing the tech stuff for a comedy website with a friend, and piggybacked all my personal stuff on to there. I still use the domain and the same webhosting dudes (All About Hosting) but there is bvgger all on the front page now (the comedy stuff is all gone) - I use it for email and hosting other sites more than anything else.
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I have a personal web site, because when I first registered it, it felt like the only way to safely host content. I think it's been registered for about ten years, and it's hosted pages for at least eight. I had pages on Demon for a couple of years before that. For a while it was on a shared colo, and now it's on Dreamhost. It may move to a box at home and serve over ADSL eventually; it's not that busy.
My home page proper is what shallowly aggregated: it fetches feeds to make the home page, but doesn't store the source data locally (although the output is cached). At some point I mean to make it deeply aggregated, so I have a copy of everything I've posted to Flickr, delicious, twitter and so on, in case they go poof! and take my data with them. (It'll also let me do pages for days.) The last time I changed the underlying source was about two or three months ago, but if the visible content hasn't been updated ( ... )
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Even then, though, it was primarily a list of links, so mostly useful for me (and has since been replaced by a combination of muscle memory, Google, browser location bar auto-complete, browser bookmarks, and delicious).
I've occasionally considered making a new homepage but haven't got around to doing so yet.
My homepage is hosted on a site I also used extensively for email addresses. It was fairly cheap since I used a subdomain of one of their domain names, so I only had to pay for hosting, not for a domain name. This is now a liability since it means that I can't really move the site (or the email addresses!) to another provider.
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Who provides you with the hosting of your homepage? For what reasons do they provide it?
Dreamhost provide the hosting, because I pay them for it.
What do you use your homepage for?
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